Implement or device for killing or disabling insects, flies, or the like.



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IMPLEMENT OR DEVICE FOR KILLING 0R DISABLING INSECTS, FLIES, OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 18 I9Il.

1,237, 1 68, Patentvd Aug. H, 1917.

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ATTYS UNITED STATES PATENT enrich; v

ARTHUR W. CASH, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T UNITED STATES WIRE MAT COMPANY, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS. I

' IMPLEMENT OR DEVICE FOR KILLING OR DISABLING INSECTS, FLIES, OR THE 7 1 237 168 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented -A g 191 Application filed June 18, 1917. Serial No. 175,359. a

To all whom it may concern: vided with the binding 3 of suitable mate Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. CAsH,-a rial, such as felt or the like." This increases, resident of Decatur, county of Macon, and the attractive appearance ofthe device and State of Illinois, have invented certain new also prevents damage or injury to the sur- 5 and useful Improvements in Implements or faces against which the device strikes. The 60 Devices for Killing or Disabling Insects, lower corner portions of the body, which is Flies, or the like, of which the following is preferably of general rectangular shape, are

a specification. folded along lines 4 converging'to a point,

This invention relates to improvements and slightly overlapping as at 5, the bound in implements or devices for killin or disedge portion 6 extending at-a slight angle 65 abling insects or the like, by striklng, and to the horizontal and forming oblique rethe principal object of this invention is the inforcements or braces. provision of such a device which is simple in construction, attractive in appearance 111g member 7 having the hanginglmok or and oapableof withstanding extended use. eye 8 and into this grasping member is set 70 Another object of my invention is. the? the supporting .part 9; This supporting provision of such a device, the body portion part comprises the wire which is looped of which is constructed so as to have maxlupon itself as at 10 so as to -provide the pair mum flexibility, and in which the handle is of adjacent supporting members shown,

securely connected to the body portion so as which fit into a recess or socket 11 in the 75 to strengthen the same and reduce the posgrasping member of the handle. The sup sibility' of breaking the device at this point. porting part of the handle is applied to the To the accomplishment of the foregoing ody so that the members thereof pass and suchother objects as may hereinafter through the mesh of the body without inappear, my invention consists in the combijury thereto,-and so that the loop 10 may be 0 nation, construction and arrangement of bent down upon one side ofthe body with parts hereinafter described and then sought pressure, as shown 'at 12. This is at the to be defined in the appended claims, referjunction or overlapping of the edges of the ence being had to the accompanying drawfolded portions of the body and securely ings forming a parthereof, and which show ,holds this part of the body together. merely for the purpose of illustrative dis- At the lower extremity of the body, I closure, a preferred embodiment of my 1n-'- utihze the clasp or clip 13 shown, which vention, it being understood that varlous has the pair of turned in portions 14:, one changes may be made in practice w 1thm the for each of the supporting members. The

35 scope of the claims without digressing from lower extremlty of the body rests Within my inventive idea. this clamp or clasp as clearly shown in In the drawings, Fig. 5, and when the sides of'the clamp Figure 1 represents a rear view of a dc or, clasp are turned over, as shown in Fig. 5, vice constructed according to my inventhe attachment of the body to the support- The handle preferably includes the i 40 tion; ingtpart of the handle is made secure.

Fig. 2' represents a front view of the is to be noted that the handle is atsame; tached to the body at two places, at the Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section lower extremity of the body and at the through the same; junction of the folded portions, the part of 45 Fig. 4 is an enlarged view-of part of the the handle between these points of conneclongitudinal section indicated by lines 4.-4= tion providing a rigid brace, which in use, of Fig. 3; holds that portion of the body and permlt- I Fig. 5 is an enlarged section looking from ting the efiectlve part of the body to flex line 55 of Fig. 4, readily Without the possibility of damage to 60 Referring now to the drawings, the nuthe attachment.

moral I designates the body portion of the What I clalm 1s: device and the numeral 2, the handle. The 1. A device of the character described, 111- body portion of the device is preferably cludlng in combination, a body portlon and. composed of a woven wire fabric or flexible a handle, said body portion being composed netting, having its side and top edges proof a flexible netting and said handle ncluding a Wire having a loop at its upper end to pass through an intermediate portion of the body with the loop bent down thereupon, and clamping means for securing an intermediate part of the handle to t. 'e lower part of the body.

2. A device of the character described, in

cluding in cpmbination, a body portion and a handle, said body'portion being compos d of flexidle netting, said handle including a Wire member bent upon itself to provide a loop and passing through an intermediate part of said body, the loop being bent down thereupon, a clamp engaging the lower extremity of the body and also the two parts of the handle so asto securely connect them together.

and to hold the folded portions thereof in position,.and a clamping means for connecting the handle to the lower extremity-of thebody.

A device of the character described, in

V being forced against the body so as to bind the handle to the body reamed eluding in combination, a body portion and a handle, said body portion being composed of fieXible netting of substantially rectangular shape, having its lower corner portions folded along the lines'converging to a point and slightly overlapping, said handle in cluding a Wire member looped upon itself and passing through the body portion adjacent the upper edges of the folded. portion thereof, the loop being forced against the body so as to bind the handle to the body and to hold the folded portions thereof in position, a clamping means having a body portion adapted to receive the lower portion of the body of the device and having its edge portions turned in over the Wire forming the handle so as to securely clamp the lower extremity of the body to the Wire part of the handle,

5. A device of the character described, including in combination, a body portion and a handle, said body portion being composed of flexible netting and said handle including a who having a loop at its upper end to pass through intermediate portion of the body With the loop bent down thereupon, and clamping means for securing an intermediate part of the handle to the lower part of the body, said Wire portion of the handle passing through the meshes of the body Without cutting, breaking or separat ing the Wires,

ARTHUR EV, G iSH.

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